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Uno, nessuno e centomila Summary
Uno, nessuno e centomila
by Luigi Pirandello 1925 200 pages
4.03
31k+ ratings
Classics
Italian Literature
Italy
All the Pretty Horses Summary
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 pages
4.06
100k+ ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Classics
Wait Until Spring, Bandini Summary
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
by John Fante 1938 266 pages
4.10
14k+ ratings
Classics
Novels
American
The Golden Notebook Summary
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing 1962 640 pages
3.77
24k+ ratings
Classics
Feminism
Nobel Prize
The Painted Bird Summary
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński 1965 234 pages
3.90
28k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Horror
Il barone rampante Summary
Il barone rampante
by Italo Calvino 1957 246 pages
4.02
54k+ ratings
Classics
Italian Literature
Italy
Cyclonopedia Summary
Cyclonopedia
Complicity with Anonymous Materials
by Reza Negarestani 2008 268 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Horror
Theory
Tajuplný ostrov Summary
Tajuplný ostrov
by Jules Verne 1875 492 pages
4.14
59k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Adventure
Sometimes a Great Notion Summary
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages
4.26
24k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained Summary
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
by John Milton 1667 400 pages
4.07
8k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
The Aeneid Summary
The Aeneid
by Virgil 505 pages
3.88
100k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
Die Physiker Summary
Die Physiker
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962 95 pages
3.89
44k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
German Literature
Life and Fate Summary
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman 1960 864 pages
4.46
15k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Historical Fiction
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov Summary
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
by Vladimir Nabokov 1935
3.92
20k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages
3.69
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Book Club
Literature
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Summary
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
by Harold Bloom 2000 147 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Literature
Life Summary
Life
A User's Manual
by Georges Perec 1978 581 pages
4.17
10k+ ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead Summary
Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand 1995
4.10
5k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Politics
A Christmas Carol Summary
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens 1843 184 pages
4.09
900k+ ratings
Classics
Christmas
Fantasy
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Summary
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain 1889 480 pages
3.78
100k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays Summary
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
by Tennessee Williams 1955 329 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
J.R.R. Tolkien Summary
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Biography
by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 385 pages
4.06
16k+ ratings
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
The Anna Karenina Fix Summary
The Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
by Viv Groskop 2019 224 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Books About Books
Russia
Memoir
Cancer Ward Summary
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages
4.26
17k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The adventures of Tom Sowyer Summary
The adventures of Tom Sowyer
by Mark Twain 1876
3.92
1M+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Why Read Moby-Dick? Summary
Why Read Moby-Dick?
by Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 131 pages
3.78
4k+ ratings
Literary Criticism
Books About Books
Classics
EVERY DAY IS MOTHER S DAY Summary
EVERY DAY IS MOTHER S DAY
by Hilary Mantel 1985 212 pages
3.59
2k+ ratings
British Literature
Literary Fiction
Novels
Bulfinch's Mythology Summary
Bulfinch's Mythology
by Thomas Bulfinch 1855 862 pages
4.14
12k+ ratings
Mythology
Classics
Fantasy
To the Lighthouse Summary
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages
3.81
200k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Christ in Concrete Summary
Christ in Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
American
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense Summary
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
by Charles Bukowski 1986 320 pages
4.17
19k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Summary
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka 1996 88 pages
3.85
5k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
The Written World Summary
The Written World
The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
by Martin Puchner 2014 537 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
History
Books About Books
Literature
Darkness at Noon Summary
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler 1940 216 pages
4.12
34k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Politics
LE GONE DU CHABAA Summary
LE GONE DU CHABAA
by Azouz Begag 1986
3.63
1k+ ratings
France
School
Literature
The Stoic Summary
The Stoic
by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
Classics
American
Novels
On Writing Summary
On Writing
by Ernest Hemingway 1984 160 pages
4.02
4k+ ratings
Writing
Classics
Literature
History of English literature Summary
History of English literature
by Edward Albert 1923 544 pages
3.90
257 ratings
History
Literature
Academic
مرگ ایوان ایلیچ و داستان های دیگر Summary
مرگ ایوان ایلیچ و داستان های دیگر
by Leo Tolstoy 1886 256 pages
4.12
17k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Russia
Men Without Women Summary
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages
3.58
16k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
It Can't Happen Here Summary
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis 1935 400 pages
3.81
25k+ ratings
Classics
Politics
Dystopia
The Return of the Native Summary
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages
3.88
40k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Mount Analogue Summary
Mount Analogue
a novel of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures in mountain climbing / Rene´ Daumal ; translation & introduction by Roger Shattuck ; with a postface by Ve´ra Daumal ; translated from the definitive edition
by René Daumal 1952
4.08
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
France
Novels
The Call of the Wild / White Fang Summary
The Call of the Wild / White Fang
by Jack London 1903 292 pages
4.12
78k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Animals
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Summary
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages
4.00
36k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
Song of Solomon Summary
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages
4.16
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Early Socratic Dialogues Summary
Early Socratic Dialogues
by Plato 399 pages
4.05
417 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Ancient
Mexico Summary
Mexico
by James A. Michener 1992 672 pages
3.75
5k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Travel
Books vs. Cigarettes Summary
Books vs. Cigarettes
by George Orwell 1946
3.83
8k+ ratings
Essays
Classics
Philosophy
Bleak House Summary
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens 1853 1017 pages
4.02
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
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